soldierly
Speech parts
1. soldierly - Adjective
2. soldierly - Adverb
3. soldierly - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Like or becoming a real soldier; brave; martial; heroic; honorable; soldierlike.
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The man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others sleep, pray while others play. There will be no place for loose or lazy habits in word or thought, deed or dress. He will observe a soldierly discipline, diet and deportment, so that he may wage a good warfare.
a military bearing
Although he was impatient, often irritable and depressed, petulant, headstrong, and unreasonably gruff, he had solid soldierly qualities.
He was a serious person, never friendly or jovial, who cultivated a soldierly demeanor.
It can be thought of as "combatant activity", "the fighter frame of mind", "the militant mode", "the soldierly status", or "the warrior way".